those who understand fully that if you have to move it's. real life stories from would need to. be true nineteen forty five don't. two thirty am in moscow these are your r.t. headlines thousands flee political unrest in north africa and the middle east but as they arrive in europe looking for safety they're accused of bringing violence and instability with them the tiny italian island of lampedusa has been overwhelmed with refugees from tunisia. libyan leader colonel moammar gadhafi rejects calls to

step down despite hundreds killed in anti-government protests this is a british prime minister david cameron has slammed for taking defense company it representatives on his tour of stricken countries in the middle east. president medvedev warns of extreme volatility in the arab world as the government pulls hundreds of russian workers out of libya moscow's concerned islamic militants could seize power in north africa and set the whole region on a destructive course. plus the red planet has seen its last gasp for now with crewmen making their final walk on a mock martian surface was part of a simulated mission to mars project as an eighteen month long experiment to bring an actual mission to the planet one step closer and. up next artie's resident adventurer james brown head south to the pens are region to get to grips with his shooting skills and indulge in some nineteenth century poetry coming your way next . in russian terms the pen's region is just

a short hop from moscow around six hundred fifty kilometers southeast and only an hour's plane journey away it's an area that any travelers should explore. the capital pens are is home to more than half a million people and although it's a modern city with a thriving business and cultural scene there are plenty of twits passed around the streets. so this is where the history of penza began back in sixteen sixty three it was founded as a frontier town and the very first wooden buildings went up right here. in fact much of the region still consists of forests and if you're interested in seeing some of its best preserved historical sites you just need to head out to the countryside. back in the early nineteenth century these grounds were the home of the famous russian poet mikhail told now you can see it's all very picture post-cards but that doesn't mean that it's extremely killie. find somewhere to get

out of the cold. of his widely regarded as russia's second greatest poets off to alexander pushkin and he lived on this estate until he was twelve years old nowadays preserved as a museum to his life and times and that means you're going to bump into plenty of contemporary characters. will have been called becoming quite good at this stuff and then it these little rag dolls were given as presents for birthdays christenings and weddings and each one has our own individual outfit each goal is supposed to walk away the evil eye from its maker but according to the ladies here there are certain attributes that are particularly important. now let's take a women's pride to breath here and tie them under the mat has my little completed dolly and apparently. the larger the breasts of the bill the more love and tenderness you will have in your home quite fortunate to have quite

a well in doubt girl here is what i'm watching also i finished my needlework my hostess introduced me to the rest of her hardworking family but it seems they have an open house policy here. no. rationalised i'm glad to see you it's a holiday today we can celebrate with finn and soon a few more guests turned out for some fun and games. mr traditional my friends are all tears. they certainly go out of their way to make you feel welcome and if you're looking for some period drama just take a walk through the main house. you know a good puppy dogs is great for warming the pools and all but i think that oh mr lemon for probably was used to something a little while ago. i might not have been appropriately dressed but my hostess to leno was kind enough not to comment on dr i'd been introduced to the local snake

society she wished me off to the dogs for i knew the poor mr letterman told her i'd met his end in a jewel so i was definitely on my best behavior and fortunately i was able to finish my waltz with my dignity and yellin is totally still intact. thank you very much limits you in a glad to see you here again and me too. i'm just outside the gates of your state there was even some area transport available. so sadly it's time to get back to the twenty first century but at least looking leave the nineteenth in an authentic fashion. to follow the whole. unfortunately for me i'm like calls horses get tired and i was dropped off still a fair distance from penza it was time to get hiking. up

and walking for ages and i'm absolutely paul i mean even quite tempted to stop eating some of this snow but hopefully i think i might be able to find something better than that around here. luck i think this might be the place. coast. like. tunnels very much. the stuff. they had the right direction. and it turned out i was right. hello believes the ku marcus ring is yeah this is. a fall in the bucket springs with us could have a drink please show. you some ground want to source was discovered almost

a hundred years ago and it's been here ever since. this water has many useful properties it needs no prior treatment before it goes into food products from serious to what it drifts towards a plant no come say used to bring it up that. is only the second was still on the russian throne this was because production line each bottle filled labelled and sealed by her before being locked away in a trunk for delivery across the nation. now in asia the water is still sold throughout russia it's just produced a thousand times false. it only takes around twenty seconds for the water to flow through to the plant and the factory bottles are ten million liters of it every month and it seems they've branched out into one or two other products as well. ok this is what i'm talking about the soda tasted. wonderful because of this. too many oh the hell.

they make six thousand bottles an hour. refresh them responsibilities i was soon back in pens but i had a serious sugar rush to burn off and way better than at the local. if you watch the show you'll know just how big the final things extreme so what could be more homeschooled honestly i'm not saw it in the middle of winter. oh my god this guy is crazy. ok. so it's thirty degrees in here political because right. maybe splashing around among pens and housewives doesn't exactly count as particularly extreme but if you do have a taste for adventure they're all want to place you cameras. but when this area was

nothing but forests there were regular scum between the soldiers of the saw and local and nomadic tribes women now of course the further away you could kill your enemy from the better off you were but it took practice. and the art of dealing death from a distance is still alive and well. dimitri is the chief instructor at this medieval style shooting club. james this is an older weapon a sling is more like it in the past they were made out of wood and this is a modern version of loading up a catapult me back to a misspent youth but it did take me a while to get my eye in just in case you do a find yourself in the forest with a catapult on a bed does walk out in front of you probably best to leave him alone. i was ready to try out something a little bigger and dimitri and i moved on to the archery range although i swear

the sights were awful nose but. we miss quite a long way down a little bit. but all sure little practice things started to improve. oh yes good shots. second i guess in this case it wasn't a robinhood performance but at least i was regularly hitting the target now. nicely done jim you're quick learner but we have a more powerful weapon for you the final test was still to come on this weapon i'd only ever seen in movies in museums and it's a pretty deadly piece of equipment this is this one is even more effective crossbow can be fully loaded well before it's used. but anyone with a loaded weapon can hide an ambush waiting for an enemy or wild animals the weapon is used for hunting and fighting it is still popular to this day so to me and.

so it was only appropriate that we had some authentic forest game to a much. wild boar take down one of these and it just so happens that we have. to have a go at ok one poor friend. we can. or could sandwiches for everybody but of course you should make sure that your prey is really dead first i think i've definitely found my weapon of choice so i've learned how to enrage a poor fake bear and kill a poor fake pig. i'm ready for war. now i just need to find some people who might be able to make use of my new found skills when i go about doing that and and so. he's looking like the faces. i knew that was trying he was going to come in and they. just greetings and who are

you guys we are fighting school israel we're going to do the rounds in the forest there are plenty of bad people hanging out there. you gave me and his brothers in arms the members of pens is oldest mediæval club for more than eighteen years they've been recreating bottles adding to their all marie and creating some very fetching costumes and after some intensive sword fighting we were ready to head out on patrol gentlemen are you ready yes let's do this apparently there were rumors of toxins in the forest where were they hiding.

it was my great aunt to die for my brother. who own a certain book or the chain mail called the west. that's lucky. and for a miraculous of bumps as in thirteenth century mention everyone else was able to make a full recovery is going to be some upsides mediæval warfare. i guess if you're going to get stabbed and beaten up and covered in mud this is what makes it all worth it . my friends glory to russia. it had been a pretty intense start so much travels and pens and american blood on the chance to eat drink and be merry for a while was just hoping for a few roll of the more sedate activities around the corner.

good samaritan. excellent professional. medics travel bunch possessing an extraordinary car. the doctor who helped many people in his country. the political criminal responsible for thousands of deaths. was it an attempt to repent. or just escape a fair trial. the other line twelve round among. an arche. the vast senior trisha's and this is

a product of the price of healthy eating. we need to test these foods for times is the allergenicity immune response lower nutrition in for environmental contamination don't you feel like a lab rat some consider the experiment in human treatment very highly significant differences between the g.m. felt that they both at their own g.m. . but they weren't treated so well themselves one question means one career you ask one question you get the answer and you might or might not be able to publish it but that's the end of your career. after spending a fair bit of my time in n.z. getting wet cold and out of breath i was more than ready to visit somewhere which got me out of snow. so when you're dealing with a long winter cautioning plenty of things that you can do with those like us now.

you know pretty much all the rules to. even though not all that great but the russians. have got their own version but they're on the phone bill of let's do this meet comfort not in this case a prince of denmark but the undisputed king of pens as russian billiards scene the former champion is head coach of russia's under eighteen billion team and he's had plenty of success. over the past four years they have achieved impressive results some of them take part in national and international competitions also teach kids here. the game takes elements from both snoop and pool but it's considered to be much more difficult than both especially when you're trying to pull off shots like beads. or. i was going to attempt

anything quite that flashy but i thought i could at least most of the elton breaking. part of the idea is i'm going to hit the bottom right hand hole. and see what happens. to. all. the knock it in from twenty centimeters stock if you can get that far away from the pocket off to such assess the game itself healthy this am i was ready to challenge the most but apparently the most had other ideas i'm going to play with. it should be fun except it wasn't not one bit. since getting maureen value moved around the table like a seasoned pro and i was left trying to remember exactly what i was supposed to be aiming at. ok so you can use the red ball to pot the white ball but you can also use the white ball to poke the white balls and the white will spot the red balls

but then you have to take away a white ball. i was getting seriously behind and obviously with my level of skill it had to be the full tape. why why would you create a game where the pockets are obviously too small for the boards. and then with horrible inevitability as over. time. i think i just got hostiles. with my ego severely bruised i slunk out of the club and back to my rant off. i needed cheering up any one place where it wouldn't matter if i drove like a plane it. never really got used to in rush was driving conditions like the on the road just snowy and icy it makes it really difficult to control the car. to get

a little extreme condition fresh. this is your school yes this is a safety driving school. most of them said gay is a professional race and founder of pens a safety driving school and if you want to know how to handle your car in winter. games now i'm going to show you how you can stop your car from. getting there's a technique to it. you need to learn to use the handbrake as well as the steering wheel in such situations. but when you've got problems begin with you keep your left hand on the wheel not sure you know when you and your right hand on the handbrake. of course said

game made it look incredibly easy but would my chevy be up to the challenge. was not on your turn now. it's time to run the traffic on gauntlet. admittedly we did up facing the wrong way a couple of times but he's a patient instructor and i was beginning to get the hang of things. i got. tougher than you expect. some just big boring drive really used to driving me to. getting one. going to tell the truth is the toughest but slow practice i mean he's

off the accelerator. it wasn't elegant but it was effective and after a few circuits without incident i was ready for ball. but it does get a little cumin it's called police turn will help you get out of trouble when the car spins out of control then why did the driver freezes up and just holds on to the wheel waiting for the car to stop but there is a way out. you simply put the car into reverse drive back quickly and turn the wheel. it has no name to start with we need to step on the accelerator and then press the clutch to make a sharp turn. now we're back to normal. rice

we have some dramatic driving music so this. lady. being chased by the prissy celtic. mileage is well done. as well as my brain kicks again. i managed to pass the course and you never know when these new but do this point come in handy. now i can dramatically we my way in and out of the moscow traffic police go off to a walk in just to school. but i couldn't hit the road back to the capital for i picked up a few keepsakes i mean the pens a region that means glass. these but be a little pricier than your average souvenir but this region is famous for its lead

crystal and this museum has a collection that goes back all the two hundred words. to the curator it's particularly historic spiffed. little james now james you can see this unique collection both in terms of age and content. is can well be used to study the history of glass blowing in russia and the rest of the world. although it originated in the late eighteenth century it is still being replenished and of course before it can be transformed into something beautiful the rule materials need to be assembled. at this mixture it will make crystals it is melted to under one thousand four hundred fifty celsius. although the work is here of fame for making valuable pieces of art there's also a lucrative souvenir business and had glass blower on tray was ready to share some

secrets with me. still it started but now i have heard the green word of molten glass that. i'm going to keep a very tight thing. but it doesn't fall off. speed really is of the essence here otherwise the molten bloss quickly falls out of shape i'm mostly bored best. oh. well i'm reliably informed that this is going to turn out to be a bunny rabbit. maybe andre can do a little bit of rescue work. once the body actually looks like the rabbits the designers can add on finishing touches and then the piece is baked in the oven to solidify and a few hours later it's meant for the shelves. so any flooding laughing in a glass blowing talent but on the right is

a patch up last night we have one point in realistic and the rabbit. one time in pens was all my stuff but i was still hoping to catch a little more culture before i went on the legend of one man still dominates the local fare to see. this house was the childhood home of one of the real greats of russian bit of lot more hold revolutionize the way people thought about acting and stage direction in russia and the early soviet union and his techniques are still practiced here today. hold move sharply away from classical theatrical practice abandoning stage curtains making actors before without makeup and encouraging him for his ation and he is in his former home a company a following in his footsteps. with a little hole here christmas present. oh he could. switch the

bomb use or call. in. shows here attract visitors from far afield and often sell out weeks in an old swap sadly i didn't have time to stay and see one potential had another surprise for. james i have to make a confession i like you and tell actors like you to come on i'm going to show you something must lease the to has no parallels in the world mere whole devised it introduced quite unusual thinks so literally what we have here is house production every show takes place here it's marigolds personal home she was a different person his attitude towards life was quite bizarre and here we have to prove it. holds most piece was considered to be his version of gogol's the government inspector and it turned out that natasha's troop was just one baritone short. or.

a. professor with a little bit of discourse on the eve of the russian soul. who proved. it was certainly a memorable and my trip to the panzer region my time travel to the thirteenth nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the space of ten days and made it back in one piece if you're a fan of history nature will simply want some top class entertainment this is a great place to visit. the ability of the.

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